Centering the body for online learning and dialogue: basic meditation techniques
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 3:00-4:30
Presenters: Rebecca Acabchuk, Tina Huey, Martina Rosenberg
Location: Online (check email or FINS on the day)
Designed as a roundtable, teaching talks are a place to explore pedagogical tools, methods, principles, and challenges. They are oriented toward anyone in a teaching or mentoring role, and as such they draw participants from faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students across disciplines and departments.
Simple, brief, guided meditation techniques will be introduced. Participants will consider how and at what point mindfulness and meditation techniques might be used in, or adapted for, a course or community conversation. Discussion topics may include:
- challenging conversations
- empathy and compassion
- supporting online “presence”
- community building
- other topics of interest to participants
Co-hosted by the Initiative on Campus Dialogues
Guest presenter: Rebecca Acabchuk
Dr. Rebecca Acabchuk has a PhD in Physiology and Neurobiology. She currently works as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Connecticut, where she holds a joint appointment in the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) and the Department of Psychological Sciences. Her research focuses on evaluating the mental and physical health benefits of mindfulness-based programs, using advanced methods of evidence synthesis, as well as developing implementation strategies to bring evidence-based mindfulness programs into the community. She recently completed a randomized trial of 140 students at UConn comparing mindfulness tools to assist people in developing a meditation practice to self-manage stress. Rebecca runs mindfulness workshops locally and internationally, tailored for awide variety of audiences, she has been teaching meditation, yoga and other wellness classes in the private sector for over 15 years. At UConn, she has led mindfulness workshops for teachers, students, athletes, the Recovery House, First Year Programs, Student Support Services, and others. As an adjunct Professor, she has taught multiple courses at Connecticut College and UConn, including the “Neuroscience of Meditation” and “Health Psychology”. Rebecca is also an Editorial Associate for two scientific journals, Social Science & Medicine, and Psychological Bulletin. She is a research consultant for the Mindfulness Director Initiative and the Brain Safety Alliance.
Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=1801
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu